Twittering
I joined Twitter a while back, but never really picked up using it. I’d been using my Facebook Status in much the same way. I’m picking up twittering again, as I realized that, had I been using it, it would have helped me today.
I was in DC for the Sun Tech Day; I spent about 1.5 hours in a hands-on session that was supposed to teach me how to use Ajax with Java Server Faces. In actuality, I spent about one hour installing NetBeans and various other NetBeans add ons (all of which I am now uninstalling), and then about 30 minutes trying to resolve a ClassNotFoundException. After grabbing a quick lunch, I walked around DC a little.
Now, if I’d had my twitter working, it would have been much easier to alert a bunch of people I would be in DC, that I was leaving the Sun event, and looking for something to do. As it is, I haven’t been using twitter, so I couldn’t. So this afternoon’s activity is to get back on twitter and get some friends.
Here I am on twitter. Follow me.
There really needs to be some kind of meta social network; something that I put all my accounts and friends into so that when I start using a new service, I can somehow import friends/contacts/etc. from my existing accounts. This would be a great feature for just about any social network/app to integrate, as it offloads the whole “import your contacts” process onto a third party that will likely have broader reach that your individaul app anyhow.